On 9 Apr 2025, at 17:13, Pierre Igot wrote: > First of all, I want to commend Benny on his efforts to deal with this and be > as transparent as possible with us users. It cannot be easy.
The mailing list is perhaps also my outlet for the frustrations involved ;) > For what it’s worth, I currently have six accounts in MailMate, including one > Fastmail account, one Apple iCloud account and one FREE Gmail account for > personal use. (The other three accounts are part of a hosting service that I > have for my web own domains.) I don’t mind having to deal with app-specific > passwords, even if it’s a bit awkward, as long as the process is well > documented somewhere. Just for the record, MailMate now supports OAuth for Fastmail as well. > For my main job, I also have two Exchange accounts and one Google Workspace > account. My experience with systems admins in large organizations is that > they’ll leave you alone as long as you find something that works for you that > doesn’t trigger any alarm bells on their systems, which is not always easy. > But there’s absolutely no point in trying to talk them into making any kind > of an exception for you (and it’s definitely NOT a good idea to even try to > “tell them that they were not doing their jobs properly”, as Benny suggested > elsewhere — systems admins think they are gods and nobody is to ever question > their rules and decisions). That last part is probably very good advice. > In other words, I do have one Google Workspace account that I need to access > regularly, but I don’t need to access it via MailMate, which I only use for > my free personal Gmail account. I'm glad there are other ways to “solve” problems with Gmail authentication, but my main concern is that I need to be able to provide a solution to any Gmail users who would like to continue using MailMate. And I do think those solutions exist. -- Benny _______________________________________________ mailmate mailing list Unsubscribe: https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate
